Wayang Ombak
a pack of lazy unfashionable surfers loving uncrowded bliss waves!
As surfer-traveler-explorers, you shouldn’t worry about Indonesian customs because you probably won’t be bringing any weird stuff with you. You should be more concerned of your surfboards! You know, have board will travel?
- a good rule is to bring your already used boards, refrain from bringing spic-and-span looking ones
- if you really need to bring a new one, use it a few times first if you can, or wax it up and dirt it up to make it look used
- if you are bringing more than one board bring clearly different boards with you, for example, a shortboard and a longboard, or, a 5-board quiver containing a shorty, a tanker, a fish, a fun board and a gun
- bringing shortboards of multiple sizes won’t generally impress the customs officers, they just have no idea that we need different sizes for different waves, and most probably they will consider it as a merchandise and charge customs duties accordingly
- be somewhat on your guard on your boardbags!!! … Indonesia import duties and customs has very strict rules and penalties on imports of any kind of textile produce. This happened to me and many others: the boards got through, but the bags were charged duties! Your boardbags must look very used indeed.
- a tip for longboarders ~ one longboard already looks big, try bringing two of different sizes (say 9’0 and 9’6) and the boards will look like two of the same! now imagine bringing two 9’0s, one for fast waves the other for mellow point waves … can the customs officers be convinced they are both your boards and that you need them both? Not a chance! I usually lug around two or three when travelling, i should know.
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